Search Results - "Rieser, Verena"

Evaluating the state-of-the-art of End-to-End Natural Language Generation: The E2E NLG challenge by Dušek, Ondřej, Novikova, Jekaterina, Rieser, Verena

“…•Evaluation of 21 NLG systems of a wide variety of architectures: seq2seq and other data-driven, template- or rule-based.•Detailed evaluation with novel…”
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Self-ownership, not self-production, modulates bias and agency over a synthesised voice by Payne, Bryony, Addlesee, Angus, Rieser, Verena, McGettigan, Carolyn

“…Voices are fundamentally social stimuli, and their importance to the self may be underpinned by how far they can be used to express the self and achieve…”
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Natural Language Generation as Incremental Planning Under Uncertainty: Adaptive Information Presentation for Statistical Dialogue Systems by Rieser, Verena, Lemon, Oliver, Keizer, Simon

“…We present and evaluate a novel approach to natural language generation (NLG) in statistical spoken dialogue systems (SDS) using a data-driven statistical…”
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Women share highs and lows in computer science for Ada Lovelace Day by Abbate, Janet, Narasimhan, Shobhana, Odeh, Sana, Bedwei, Farida N, Musse, Soraia Raupp, Rieser, Verena

“…Even before 'computing engines' were built, she recognized the potential of programming - "a new, a vast, and a powerful language... for the future useof…”
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‘I wrote my first piece of code at seven’: women share highs and lows in computer science for Ada Lovelace Day by Abbate, Janet, Narasimhan, Shobhana, Odeh, Sana, Bedwei, Farida N., Musse, Soraia Raupp, Rieser, Verena

“…Ada Lovelace was a visionary who first recognized the potential of computer programming. Almost two centuries on, six women in computer science and technology…”
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Agent-based modelling of land use dynamics and residential quality of life for future scenarios by Murray-Rust, Dave, Rieser, Verena, Robinson, Derek T., Miličič, Vesna, Rounsevell, Mark

“…Current LUCC research employs scenario-based analysis to explore possible future trends and impacts by defining a coherent set of plausible future…”
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Special issue on spatial reasoning and interaction for real-world robotics by Rieser, Verena, Walter, Matthew, Wollherr, Dirk

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Genetic algorithm evaluation of green search allocation policies in multilevel complex urban scenarios by Vallejo, Marta, Rieser, Verena, Corne, David W.

“…This paper investigates the relationship between the underlying complexity of urban agent-based models and the performance of optimisation algorithms. In…”
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Information density and overlap in spoken dialogue by Dethlefs, Nina, Hastie, Helen, Cuayáhuitl, Heriberto, Yu, Yanchao, Rieser, Verena, Lemon, Oliver

“…•Information density, related to entropy, is related to overlaps in spoken language.•Humans prefer overlaps based on information density and suprasegmental…”
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Risk-graded Safety for Handling Medical Queries in Conversational AI by Abercrombie, Gavin, Rieser, Verena

“…Conversational AI systems can engage in unsafe behaviour when handling users' medical queries that can have severe consequences and could even lead to deaths…”
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Adversarial Robustness of Visual Dialog by Yu, Lu, Rieser, Verena

“…Adversarial robustness evaluates the worst-case performance scenario of a machine learning model to ensure its safety and reliability. This study is the first…”
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Consistency is Key: Disentangling Label Variation in Natural Language Processing with Intra-Annotator Agreement by Abercrombie, Gavin, Rieser, Verena, Hovy, Dirk

“…We commonly use agreement measures to assess the utility of judgements made by human annotators in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. While…”
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ConvAbuse: Data, Analysis, and Benchmarks for Nuanced Abuse Detection in Conversational AI by Curry, Amanda Cercas, Abercrombie, Gavin, Rieser, Verena

“…We present the first English corpus study on abusive language towards three conversational AI systems gathered "in the wild": an open-domain social bot, a…”
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Quality-agnostic Image Captioning to Safely Assist People with Vision Impairment by Yu, Lu, Nikandrou, Malvina, Jin, Jiali, Rieser, Verena

“…Automated image captioning has the potential to be a useful tool for people with vision impairments. Images taken by this user group are often noisy, which…”
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Towards Learning Transferable Conversational Skills using Multi-dimensional Dialogue Modelling by Keizer, Simon, Rieser, Verena

“…Recent statistical approaches have improved the robustness and scalability of spoken dialogue systems. However, despite recent progress in domain adaptation,…”
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A Crowd-based Evaluation of Abuse Response Strategies in Conversational Agents by Curry, Amanda Cercas, Rieser, Verena

“…How should conversational agents respond to verbal abuse through the user? To answer this question, we conduct a large-scale crowd-sourced evaluation of abuse…”
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Task Formulation Matters When Learning Continually: A Case Study in Visual Question Answering by Nikandrou, Mavina, Yu, Lu, Suglia, Alessandro, Konstas, Ioannis, Rieser, Verena

“…Continual learning aims to train a model incrementally on a sequence of tasks without forgetting previous knowledge. Although continual learning has been…”
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FurNav: Development and Preliminary Study of a Robot Direction Giver by Wilson, Bruce W, Schlosser, Yann, Tarkany, Rayane, Moujahid, Meriam, Nesset, Birthe, Dinkar, Tanvi, Rieser, Verena

“…When giving directions to a lost-looking tourist, would you first reference the street-names, cardinal directions, landmarks, or simply tell them to walk five…”
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Understanding Counterspeech for Online Harm Mitigation by Chung, Yi-Ling, Abercrombie, Gavin, Enock, Florence, Bright, Jonathan, Rieser, Verena

“…Counterspeech offers direct rebuttals to hateful speech by challenging perpetrators of hate and showing support to targets of abuse. It provides a promising…”
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MiRANews: Dataset and Benchmarks for Multi-Resource-Assisted News Summarization by Xu, Xinnuo, Dušek, Ondřej, Narayan, Shashi, Rieser, Verena, Konstas, Ioannis

“…Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Findings (EMNLP2021 Findings) One of the most challenging aspects of…”
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